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Poland reveals arrest in parliament bomb plot

Polish officials have released the details of the arrest of a man who had planned to detonate a bomb outside of the parliament building. The suspect was apparently an admirer of Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik.

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According to information released on Tuesday, Polish officials arrested a man on November 9 in Krakow. He has been charged with planning a terrorist attack.

Prosecutors said the man had collected a small arsenal of explosives and firearms. He was apparently planning to detonate a large car bomb outside the parliament building (pictured above).

"The suspect does not belong to a political group or party," prosecutor Piotr Krason said at a news conference. "He claims that he was acting on nationalistic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic motives."

The attack was meant to take place while parliament was in session and President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and government ministers were in the building.

"He believed that the current social and economic situation in our country was moving in the wrong direction because virtually all the government positions and positions of power were filled by people who he described as 'foreign,'" Krason said. "They are not - in his opinion - true Poles."